Geez, I spent several minutes looking and couldn’t find the “Good Book” thread.
Anyways, the movie is getting real good reviews and tons of hype, but if you like to read, get your hands on “Mystic River” by Dennis Lehane – most excellent read, top twenty all timer maybe. Simple story line and knowing how it unfolds will ruin it for you. Read the book before you see the movie.
Just finished “Shutter Island” by him too. Good book, for sure, but “Mystic River” is special.
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Yup! good book. I'll give you several books to curl up to in front of the fire. All by Stephen Hunter. He's written a bunch but I'm partial to the "Bob The Nailer" series starting with "Point of Impact". Bob is a Viet Nam vet years later.He gets into an adventure and so on. Next is "Dirty White Boys" which jumps back to Bob's dad. You get the drift. It's cool how he ties all the books together. Later books tell you why things happened in earlier books.They are very readable. In fact it should take you about 2 days each as you probably won't put them down. Be forewarned.
Im reading one now about this Turtle King Named Yertle who made all his subject stack up on one little turtle named Mack so he could be king of all He saw..well its really suspencefull I cant wait to finish it
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Ditto on Stephen Hunter.
About half of what I read is non-fiction. I'm now reading a book called "Sailors to the End" by Gregory A. Freeman. It's about the USS Forestal fire in 1967, off the coast of Viet Nam. It's the one that Sen. John McCain was involved in.
It's a gut wrenching, disturbing, yet inspiring book. If the book doesn't bring tears to your eyes at least a couple of times, then your heart is carved from a block of ice. The heroism displayed by the citizen-sailors(to borrow a phrase from Stephen Ambrose) as well as the career sailors and aviators is awe-inspiring.
John Svenson, Builder, Remodeler, NE Ohio (Formerly posted as JRS)
A little off the point, but an item you may appreciate.
The designers of JDAM electronics put all (except GPS rcvr) in a solid copper truncated prism EMI shield, with the byword "remember the Forrestal" - for those w/o a clue what that means, a root cause of the fire was a broken EMI ground strap.
Speaking of Ambrose, "Undaunted Courage" was a excellent read as well as a good history lesson. I can't pick up a new dollar coin without thinking about it.
"I am not young enough to know everything."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Edited 10/23/2003 4:31:40 PM ET by Bill
Ya know, Jimmy Buffett writes some good stories/books. Very entertaining and if your a fan of his he throws in some characters from his songs.
Didnt care for Jimmy's book but check out Kinky Friedman's books.....similar....I love Kinky but his books weren't the best but real similar to JB's.....fun to read.
Be Kinky
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I love Kinky but his books weren't the best but real similar to JB's.....fun to read
The Kinkster is fun in person, even better when he's singing.
Kinky plots better than Bubba, but JB is probably better at characterization.
The Kinkster shows up in at least one of Riordan's books--about right for Austin & SA.
NOt so hot on Kinky's non-fiction, hey there it is. Was a story not long ago, that Kinky was going to run for mayor of Kerrville--which might be an interesting story in and of itself.
Fave Kinky quote: "When it's too kinky for the rest of the world, it's just right for me."Occupational hazard of my occupation not being around (sorry Bubba)
Yep,
Saw the Kinkster last year at a small club..the guy is too funny!
A Jew cowboy.....too funny..but then again, me being a Jew carpenter....not too many around either lthough I heard several thousands of years ago there was one....lol
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Hmm, may have to give that a look. I'm still hooked on Bernie Cornwell's "Sharpe" series. "Sharpe's Prey" has just come in, so I can visit the Battle of Copenhagen from a different perspective than in Naval History class.
For Doug & elCid, if they like mysteries, they need to check out Rick Riordan's novels. They're set in both Austin and SA, are filled with fun bits of local color (more so for those who have been there, done that, & woke up without at-shirt). Real good reads, in any event, and really well crafted mysteries.
I'm waiting on both Dave Poyer and PT Deutermann to bet more in print. Harold Coyle and Steve Coonts, too, for that matter. And, I found out that Clive wrote another Dirk Pitt novel, despite the much ballyhooed rumors of his retirement. Mr. Cussler has been working on a screenplay for "Sahara," so, that's come back to my reading list.
Bibliophile? You bet.
The photo is just paperbacks (and not all) and is from 2 years ago.
Edited 11/24/2003 12:18:35 AM ET by CapnMac
Good movie too!
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